(Boston Globe)
Larry Edelman January 28, 2019
Forget about the wall and worry about the back door.
That’s my takeaway from yesterday’s eye-opening — and somewhat scary — front-page story in The New York Times about the US government’s efforts to persuade allies and other countries to shun next-generation mobile phone networks made by Huawei Technologies and other Chinese companies.
Unlike President Trump’s phony immigration crisis, China’s potential ability to infiltrate so-called 5G networks is a real security threat. This time, the president has it right.
“Nervousness about Chinese technology has long existed in the United States, fueled by the fear that the Chinese could insert a ‘back door’ into telecom and computing networks that would allow Chinese security services to intercept military, government and corporate communications,” according to the Times story by David E. Sanger, Julian E. Barnes, Raymond Zhong, and Marc Santora. “But the concern has taken on more urgency as countries around the world begin deciding which equipment providers will build their 5G networks.”
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